In George Michael: A Life , Gavin\'s engrossing biography of the singer takes the measure of a gifted, tragic, and infuriating man ( New York Times Book Review ).
With deep analysis of the creative process behind Michael\'s albums, tours, and music videos, as well as interviews with hundreds of his friends and colleagues, George Michael: A Life is a probing, definitive portrait of a pop legend..
Acclaimed music biographer James Gavin traces Michael\'s metamorphosis from the shy and awkward Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou into the swaggering, dominant half of the leading British pop duo of the 1980s Wham! He then details Michael\'s sensational solo career and its subsequent unraveling.
George Michael: A Life explores the compelling story of a superstar whose struggles, as well as his songs, continue to touch fans all over the world.
As one of the industry\'s most privileged yet tortured men began to self-destruct, the press showed little sympathy.
Soon his obsession with fame would start to backfire.
It also hid--for a time--the secret he fought against revealing: Michael was gay.
His fabricated image--that of a hypermacho sex god--loomed large in the pop culture of his day.
He was a songwriter of true craft and substance, and his music swept the world, starting in the mid-1980s.
George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic.
In George Michael: A Life , Gavin\'s engrossing biography of the singer takes the measure of a gifted, tragic, and infuriating man ( New York Times Book Review )
